“I think that her bodyguards should drop all weapons, they should disarm, right?”
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Then when he called for her security detail to disarm, he said it would be “very risky”.
Spokesman Robby Mook released a statement Friday night saying Trump “has a pattern of inciting people to violence”.
The US first lady and wife of President Barack Obama, who won the White House in 2008 and 2012 with high levels of support from young voters, told a crowd of students in Virginia that they could mean the difference between a Clinton win or a loss to Republican nominee Donald Trump.
Trump’s repeated joking about disarming the Secret Service agents who protect his opponent from violent attacks is unique in modern presidential politics. In an address to the National Rifle Association in May, for instance, the real estate mogul said that “heartless hypocrites like the Clintons. want to get rid of guns, and yet they have bodyguards that have guns”.
After five years as the chief promoter of a lie about Barack Obama’s birthplace, Donald Trump abruptly reversed course Friday and acknowledged the fact that the president was born in America.
As recently as September 15, Trump was unwilling to say that Obama was born in the United States. There exists no definitive proof of this.
The Secret Service has not commented.It comes after a remark by Mr Trump last month was blasted by Democrats who claimed it was a call for Mrs Clinton’s assassination.
Trump was slammed for his comments. “She wants to destroy your Second Amendment”, he said after making rambling comments equating working people with hedge fund and Wall Street managers wanting “a fraction of the security enjoyed” by both politicians and Clinton. But I’ll tell you what.
During an impassioned speech to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, an organisation that carries out research on issues affecting African-Americans, Mr Obama said it would be an “insult to his legacy” if the black community voted for Donald Trump – or refrained from voting at all – in the upcoming election.
“Clinton’s campaign relies on the exhausted tactic of smearing opponents who question her policies as racists”, Trump said at an election rally in Miami, Florida.
“I don’t talk about it because if I talk about that, your whole thing will be about that”, Trump said. “There can be no other interpretation”, he said at the time.
Though she has not yet been a frequent presence on the 2016 campaign trail, Mrs. Obama has proven to be an especially powerful advocate for Clinton, her husband’s one-time rival.
Kaine condemned Trump in an interview with Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday”.
Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961, just two years after the island in the Pacific Ocean became a US state. But perhaps we are being too harsh with Donald Trump. “They should disarm. Right?”
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“If she just was very transparent, even if it is something that’s a chronic disease that’s mildly debilitating, most Americans would have said: ‘Hey, you know what?”
